The judge administering the US criminal trial of Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm said he was “inclined” not to allow any 2022 penalties against the cryptocurrency mixing service in court.
According to reporting from the Inner City Press on Tuesday, Judge Katherine Failla of the US District Court of New York’s Southern District Says He was unlikely to provide a motion that prohibited the mention of North Korea and the hackers in the Lazarus group as part of the prosecutor’s case against the storm. However, the judge reported that he was “inclined to retain the penalties in August 2022, because they were eventually withdrawn.”
The penalties in question are specified in the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) penalties that add addresses connected to the tornado of cash to its list of specially designated national Backtracked with crypto mixer In March.
“The penalties were revoked,” Failla said, according to the Inner City Press. “So (the storm) is aware of guilt in something he is not eventually guilty.”
The storm was accused of August 2023 for money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter and conspiracy to violate US penalties. Filla is expected to issue decisions where Witnesses are allowed to testify before Monday, when the Tornado Cash co-founder test is set to begin.
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Will Storm be convinced and punished in prison?
The criminal case against the storm has prompted many high-profile figures in the crypto and blockchain industry to call the charges to be lowered, reflecting similar claims that “the writing code is not a crime.”
Ethereum Foundation, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Blerin and Paradigm founder Matt Huang has Contributed thousands of dollars to the legal fund of the Tornado Cash co-founder prior to his trial.
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Thinking that it progresses as scheduled, the criminal test of the STORM is likely one of the most significant legal events affecting the crypto industry following the convincing FTX CEO Sam Bankman-fried and the condemnation of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and former Celius CEO Alex Mashinsky.
The terraform labs co-founder do kwon din Facing federal charges In connection with security fraud, commodity fraud, market manipulation and money launch after his extradition from Montenegro to the US.
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